My regular readers-whoever they might be!-know how much I truly love the many variations in tile, but I have to say that NellaVetrina has cornered the market on an absolutely amazing variety of tile designs. And that’s just tile! They also have bathroom furnishings, furniture, and lighting.

New Ravenna Mosaics has formed a collaboration with Giovanni Barbieri, who has created a surface treatment that transforms marble into an undulating surface material that looks like nothing less than stone that has been laid down by the ancients.

The creator of the tile that tops this blog first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. His artistry and work experiences were surely yeast to the hotbed of ideas already fermenting at Lithos. And that is what has produced the Nuance, one of the more innovative tiles now being manufactured.

Oceanside Glasstile can be used indoor and out in commercial or residential settings. It can be near water, under water, or in a backsplash that is hardly splashed at all. It comes in a myriad of sizes, shapes, and colors, but the one thing that runs throughout is a wonderful shimmery luminosity.